The Explicator, Volume 81, Issue 3-4 (2023)

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The Explicator, Volume 81, Issue 3-4 (2023)

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Alchemical Decknamen in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33
Dominic Klyve
Pages: 89-92
Published online: 16 Mar 2024
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Wollstonecraft’s critical reviews on Gilpin’s picturesque
Chang He & Changwen Sun
Pages: 93-97
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
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Revisiting Coleridge’s “Instead of the Cross, the Albatross About my Neck was Hung”
Malek J. Zuraikat
Pages: 98-104
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Kindness and Sympathy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Zhongliang Shen
Pages: 105-109
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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“A Truly Carnivalesque Death”: On Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”
Weina Fan
Pages: 110-113
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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“Quite Convivial”: A Butler’s Duty in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
Seul Lee
Pages: 147-150
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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Translated China in Journey to a War
Qiang Zhang
Pages: 118-122
Published online: 07 Mar 2024
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The Perils Of Being “Nice”: Stephen’s Dilemma in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Xiaoshan Hou & Fuying Shen
Pages: 123-127
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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“Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!” Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement
Athanasios Dimakis
Pages: 128-131
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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“The spatial symbolism of Gregor’s room in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis”
Charlie Wesley
Pages: 132-135
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
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William James’s Metaphysical Revelation in Sherwood Anderson’s “Tandy”
David McCracken
Pages: 136-141
Published online: 28 Nov 2023
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“This Leaving-Out Business”: Minimalist Techniques in John Ashbery’s Poetry
Huixin Zhang
Pages: 142-146
Published online: 08 Mar 2024
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Thomas Hardy’s Racialization of English Natives in The Return of the Native
Sungmey Lee
Pages: 114-117
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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Inherent advice: Pynchon’s earnest counsel in Slow Learner
R. Mac Jones
Pages: 151-154
Published online: 10 Mar 2024
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The End of History in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections
Sunyoung Ahn
Pages: 155-158
Published online: 10 Mar 2024
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